Invisible institutional arrangements coordinate activity as much as visible technology does.
Evidence
Less obvious, because more often taken for granted, are the institutional arrangements under which the efforts of the millions of people engaged in the trade are elicited and their activities coordinated. … The basic activities, of course, are those of growers. The trade depends upon the existence of millions of acres of tillable soil It presupposes individuals in a position to determine the use to which the soil is to be put, and able and willing to devote it to the production of wanted varieties of fruits and vegetables, both for the fresh market and for the allied canned, frozen, and dried markets. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 1008
Categorization
- XREF: This is the book’s argumentative move — showing that production/distribution systems rest on legal-institutional scaffolding — which carries through the polyad’s shared thread on law/institutions. — connects to: A preponderance of small producers and buyers must effectuate enormously complex coordination — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 1020; Regulated trade terms bind licensees to their defined meanings — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 1576; Activist technology and institutional structure are mutually constitutive, not separable — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 104 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Activist technology and institutional structure are mutually constitutive, not separable
#corroborates(0.82) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 104 - Modern institutions appear as external structures despite being mere effects of practices
#corroborates(0.80) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 28 - Power circulates through networks rather than being possessed by rulers
#corroborates(0.78) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 47 - Group visibility depends on physical markers or formal institutions
#qualifies(0.75)